Abstract
The importance of variational calculus is usually not reflected in the basic, undergraduate engineering curriculum. In this paper, we present the result of a pedagogical project aimed at introducing variational calculus at an early stage in the engineering education. This introduction is based on the classical brachistochrone problem and combines both theoretical and experimental analysis.
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